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Creator of BitTorrent. Now doing cryptocurrency stuff

San Francisco
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Joined November 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 20

    Working 120 hours weeks doesn't make you more productive. It just makes you a hot mess.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    The autoindenting in the middle of pastes in the pypy shell is a bug preventing pasting of whole functions. Where can I post to complain?

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  3. 21 hours ago

    I've gotten a project to over 50,000 Esperantos

    You know how there's the "banana equivalent dose" unit for radiation? The number of users of crypto/dapp projects should be expressed as ratio to the number of Esperanto speakers worldwide (2k). So Augur at peak is 1/10th an Esperanto.
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  4. Aug 29

    I need a 128 bit non-cryptographic hash algorithm with good mixing and performance for consensus critical use. Recommendations? Reasoning?

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    Aug 29
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    An experiment in how to make a betting app without ever looking at a betting app.

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  6. Aug 28

    Augur is a product which people want people to want but nobody wants.

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  7. Aug 28

    Every MIDI instrument is a harpsichord

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  8. Aug 28

    Ironically IRBs sole reason for existence is the enforcement of ethics in medicine when they themselves are some of the most unethical, directly damaging to society, evil bureaucracies in existence.

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  9. Aug 28

    Also IRBs have decided that they're in charge of protecting the intellectual property rights patients have over their information, a form of IP which not only have they not been tasked with enforcing, but which literally does not exist.

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  10. Aug 28

    In IRB world the cost of any damage to a study subject is infinite, the value to the world of scientific knowledge is zero, and the expenses of IRB compliance don't exist.

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  11. Aug 27

    Also underrated: The societal benefits of widely available porn

    In multiple labs the finding is always the same. When people are playing violent video games violent crime tends to decrease. This isn't an opinion - this is based on a growing body of research done by psychologists, criminologists, and economists (references in comments)
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  12. Aug 27

    When civilization collapses the few remaining survivors will break into the vault of the Bank of England and use some of that worthless gold to make bullets.

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  13. Aug 26

    Paper can't be remotely exploited

    Every vote in the U.S. should have a paper trail, and that paper trail needs to be audited.
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  14. Aug 21

    It's very difficult to make random beacons trustworthy

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  15. Aug 19

    Also never split infinitives

    Crypto 2000-2012: we need to get rid of random oracles at any cost. Crypto 2013-2030: what’s so bad about random oracles, the real problem is quantum computers.
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  16. Aug 16

    Strange how the most righteous denouncers of slut shaming are the biggest offenders of virgin shaming.

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  17. Aug 7

    My guess is the 'secured funding' is from SpaceX. He got away with having Tesla acquire SolarCity, why not double down?

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  18. Aug 7

    "Can we assume that there's nothing that indicates that a buyout was Elon Musk’s mind when he purchased Tesla stock in the open market as reported on June 13?"

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  19. Aug 7

    My talk on the new BLS library and VDFs, with A/V sync mostly fixed thanks to

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  20. Aug 7

    Is it now legal for a CEO of a public company to pump their stock price as long as they do it on Twitter?

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